We have our bestie here back with us today, the Love Monk, the just-. Then we watch her do it, then fucking millions of people start doing it. I come on right after and then-. You might become a person who is called beloved by millions and millions of people all over the country.
But look, we know this because how many people who are called beloved by the world take their own lives? Being loved by others, whether those people are your most intimate friends, family support system, lovers, partners, or millions of strangers, is not an inoculation against self-hatred. But I carry an enormous shame wound, and only love can heal it. This is the only practice that I have ever had that reaches that place.
And Abby on the last episode, read the letter that she wrote to herself from love. And I meant to ask you what your physiological state was like after that, because this practice does something to my nervous system that nothing else can really do. It stills me at a level that nothing else can do.
It calms me. I think that that is true. I sat there and it just, boom, came out. It was like breathing. Like I was breathing. They say God is in breath. I felt like I could breathe. And when I think about… Even reading it, I am a very anxious public reader and I killed reading that letter publicly. Yeah, it was. I was like, what the hell is happening? My sister was like, what would Love have you read today? Well, you know how in the prayer of St.
We need you not there so that this thing can flow. I met this woman one time who was a dancer, and she was in her 50s when I met her. And she said she was shaking so hard with fear that her knees were literally knocking. And she said, she did this earnest prayer. A hole in the earth opened and I was swallowed, and Joan of Arc walked out on the stage. Oh, chills all over my body.
